After every available rating and analyst firm from Nomura to Dun & Bradstreet and India Ratings expressed a negative outlook on IndiaĆās infrastructure, the inevitable, unpleasant moment arrived when the advance estimates, officially announced early this month, stated that the nation can only achieve 5 per cent growth the current fiscal, the lowest in a decade, and 0.7 per cent lower than anticipated earlier.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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The journey ahead
The Delhi Airport Express is back on track with its usual traffic resuming on January 18. However, will the country's first airport metro serve its purpose in the long run?After lot of hiccups, the country's first airport express metro resumed its commercial operations in its regular timing from January 2013. The Airport Express line functions on a public-private partnership (PPP) model.
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Opportunities in India
The low penetration rate offers more potential for desalination in industrial segments; especially in power, metals, oil & gas, chemicals, and petrochemical industries. In the next five years, high growth rate is anticipated, at 7-8.5 per cent, in the industrial segment, according to Frost & Sullivan’s analysis.
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Seeking for a revival
With the Union Budget 2013 announcement is approaching, industry stakeholders are seeking government support for a possible revival of their respective industry segment. Ami Mistry, Dhruba Purkayastha, Mohit Sinha and Prithweesh Ghosh present an insight into the current status of critical infrastructure segments and recommend some urgent steps needed in the coming Budget.
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Sustainability is important to the future of infrastructure
We need to re-build a sense of role and purpose in our public sector, says Norman F Anderson, President & CEO, CG/LA Infrastructure Inc.Do you think the global economy revs up its engine for infrastructure growth?
One of the smartest ways for policymakers to generate growth - and growth that maximizes oppĆĀortunities for people - is through infrastructure investment.
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Everest Blowers Dry vacuum systems
Everest Blowers offers dry vacuum pumps with state-of-the-art technology. The dry screw vacuum pump from Everst has the following benefits over steam jet ejector system:Better vacuum level achieved, distillation temperature is reduced, steam consumption is nil thereby reducing load on boiler, plant and allied equiĆĀpment, load on cooling tower reduced drastically, load on effluent treatment plant
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Sports solutions
Veldeman Structure Solutions is one of the main players in terms of the development, production, sale and rental of aluminium and steel structures worldwide. Sports halls are one possible application for these permanent, semi-permanent and temporary struĆĀctures.Worldwide Veldeman has already built more than 400 sports buildings for various sports:
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A global player
The Global Wires Business of the Tata Steel Group is the sixth largest steel wire manufacturer in the world, with operations in India (four locations) as well as in China, Thailand and Sri Lanka. It is the market leader in India, Thailand and Sri Lanka with a 30 per cent market share of organised wire market in India.
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Will privatisation work?
Lack of institutional capacity for developing coal blocks, limited availability of sound contract miners, and procedural challenges faced by the captive coal block owners are major issues haunting the coal mining in India. Dealing with these challenges is important for improving sector supplies, rather than privatisation, writes Dilip Kumar Jena.
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Coal is the major concern for thermal power projects
The implementation of reforms at the state power utility (SPU) level as well as of those initiated to mitigate fuel shortages remains key to power sector turnaround, says KVB Reddy, Executive Director, Essar Power, in an interview with Sumantra Das.